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This has led to reprinting 1984 in a large print edition with 18 point type to make it easier for us old people to read.
The connection between the new president and the book 1984 is not obvious unless one has read the last part of the book.
In 1984, the protagonist Winston Smith works for the "Ministry of Love." His job is to insure that the general population love the government and its leader Big Brother.
To insure that the people love Big Brother, Winston rewrites all the newspaper articles so that they correctly reflect the views of the current government.
After having re-written an old newspaper article, he replaces it with the new article and then flushes the original article down the "memory hole."
He does this so thoroughly that in the future nobody will be able to find out what the real past was.
The connection with new president should now be obvious. He talks constantly on TV today about "Fake News" and "Alternate Facts."
Many people obviously believe his version of the news because that is how he got elected. How this will turn out is the subject of this book.
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I will never understand why people like this book. Or the other Orwellian "classic".Nothing about 1984 reads "prophetic" to me. It reads "This dude was obsessed with Stalin so he wrote down stuff Nazis were doing and called it communist" with a heavy dose of "Oh look, that's from Brave New World".It's a shame that Orwell didn't have the guts to finish this and find someone to publish it before WWII ended so it could fall into obscurity like it should have.There are so many interesting dystopian novels, some of which actually deserve the moniker "prophetic". This is not one of them.
Es un gran libro, con una trama increíble y una historia que logra atraparte. Sin embargo, siento que hacia el final se fue quedando un poco corto. El desenlace me pareció algo abrupto, como si simplemente hubiera que terminar la historia y ya. En mi opinión, le faltó un poco más de desarrollo y profundidad para cerrar todo lo que había construido a lo largo del libro.
Very well written, although a bit slow and not a subject I am really that attracted to. I really like the world building though.